Soft collar



A. M. KUNZ;

SOFT COLLAR.

APPLICATION rl'uzu MAR. 25. me.

Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

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ALPHONSE M. KUNZ, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

sore. COLLAR.

Application filed March 25, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHoNsE M. KUNZ, citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soft Collars, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in soft collars.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of soft collars and to provide a simple, practical and efficient soft collar equipped with an interiorly arranged scarf receiving pocket open at the top and both ends to enable the scarf to be readily placed therein and located above the collar button receiving button-holes so as not to interfere with the attachment of the collar to a shirt and also to hold the scarf in position to form a firm support for the upper portion of the soft collar to prevent the same from sagging thereby eliminating the stiffening means ordinarily em ployed to obtain this efiect.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a soft collar constructed in accordance with this invention, the outer portion being turned up to expose the interiorly arranged scarf receiving pocket.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the rear portion of the collar on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, the scarf being in position.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing. I

In the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, 1 designates a soft collar provided at its inner or band portion 2' with a flap 3 having an attaching portion 4 stitched to the lower part of the inner portion 2 of the collar and adapted to reinforce the same.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec it 1919. Serial No. 224,507. I

stitching 10 above the collar button receiving button-holes 5 and 6 and parallel to the top edge of portion 2 and the'line'll on which the collar is folded extends nearly the entire length of the collar and to the top portion of the same and it forms between it and the inner portion 2 of the collar a scarf receiving pocket of uniform width and nearly the'length of the face-flap 1 which is open at the topand at both ends to enable the scarf 7 to be readily placed in the pocket and the outer portion or face-flap 1 is adapted to be readily turned up as illustrated in Fig. l of the drawing to expose the pocket and enable the scarf to be placed in the same. hen the scarf is placed in the pocket and the outer portion of the collar turned down, the scarf and the flap are securely held in place at such a height that the upper edge of the scarf extends to the fold at the upper portion of the collar so as to form a firmsupport for the top of the collar throughout the fold to determine an even line of fold and to prevent the band from sagging. The construction provides a securely locked pocket which does not interfere with the adjustment of the scarf in tying the same and while the pocket extends nearly the entire length of the collar it terminates sufiiciently short of the end flaps 8 and 9 of the inner ortion of the collar to enable the same to e neatly buttoned to the front of the shirt. The arrangement of the scarf at the upper portion of the collar to support the top of the collar eliminates the stifiening ordinarily employed in soft collars to obtain this effect and the soft col-.

lar may be manufactured at a lower cost, will be more comfortable to the wearer, and

to determine the line of fold.

I claim. l. A soft fold-over collar of the kind comprising an inner band portion for atwill uniformly present a better appearance than'soft collars in which there'is nothing tachment to another garment and a facev flap portion adapted to depend from a line of fold when the collar is worn, having therein a flap attached to one of the surfaces within the fold formed by band and faceflap on a line equidistant throughout from the desired line of fold at'thetop ofthe collar and nearer to the line of fold than the'vertical width of'the inner band, spaced from theline of fold by the width ofa scarf intended to be worn with the collar, and

adapted to support the bottom edge of the scarf in use in position to determine by the upper edge of the scari the line of fold, and thereby in use to hold erect the soft band portion of the collar by supporting the fold from within.

2. A soft fold-over collar of the kind comprising an inner band portion, and a flexible face-flap adapted to be folded f0rward in a depending position in use, having therein a flexible flap free at one side and each end from attachment to the collar and adapted to be concealed by the face-flap, and fastened to the inner band portion by a straight line of stitches above the bottom of the band parallel with the intended line of fold between band and face-flap, and thereby adapted to support substantially throughout the length of the collar a scarf intended to be worn with the collar in position with its bottom edge above the-bottom edge of the band-portion of the collar and with its top edge at and in a position to determine throughout the length of the collar the line of fold between band and face-flap.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

ALPHONSE M. KUNZ. 

